With the Nokia and Microsoft partnership, a combination of Bing Maps and Nokia Maps would give birth to a great product, that even Google would fear. Thus, they decided to pre-empt the rivals’ move and come up with an offline navigation software of their own.
Supposedly a version of Google Maps with offline navigation will come out this summer....
Nokia has just unveiled the 2710 Navigation Edition handset, an affordable GPS phone, with Nokia Maps loaded. The new device will be popular both in rural and urban aresa, plus in developing and developed countries, as well.
Its advantages are straight line navigation, an integrated compass and turn by turn driving navigation with full voice guidance....
Nokia has just announced the release of its 6730 classic handset, that will be exclusively available through Vodafone. Nokia 6730 will make its global commercial debut in June, hitting Europe, Africa and Asia.
This is a candybar we’re dealing with, one that supports quad band GSM connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), plus dual band HSDPA (900/2100...
Mark from The Nokia Blog got some quality time with the Nokia 5800 Proclip Car Kit, a very nice accessory you can watch in action in the video below:
The car mount is specific to your vehicle and you should know that it features a clip to easily slide the holder. Once the phone is all set, the user tests Nokia Maps and the stability of the holder,...
Continuing the list of Nokia announcements comes Nokia 6303 classic, another 6300 follow-up. The freshly announced handset will retail for EUR 135, before taxes and subsidies and it’ll pack a 3.2 megapixel camera, a 2.2 inch screen and Nokia Maps.
The handset comes with an excellent battery, a 3.5 mm audio jack and a great music player.
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Nokia announced that it plans on buying the German mobile mapping software producer bit-side and this move is meant to strengthen the development of Nokia Maps and accelerate it. The Finns were already working with bit-side, since 2007 and the German company was a strategic development partner.
Nokia stated that they plan on offering a “social...
Santa comes early and he actually arrives from a place in Finland, if I’m not mistaking, so Nokia’s latest initiative makes them Santa’s little helpers, right? Turns out the greatest manufacturer of cellphones announced today that the sales of Nokia N85 and N79 have started in the US, just in time for the holiday season.
Nokia N85...
As Nokia World 2008 goes on, the Finnish company introduces its latest products, among which the famous Nokia Maps with Ovi integration. We’re dealing with the latest version of Maps, which combines the usual functions with Ovi in order to create a free service that will be solid gold for tourists.
You’ll be able to plan your trips on your...
An inside source from Nokia mentioned at a recent Eastern Europe partners meeting that we’ll see Ovi turning into an operating system. Not only that, but it will also offer apps for handsets and include about the same web services offered by Google, like email, document editing etc. Could this be true?
Right now, Ovi is an “umbrella concept”...